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Partisanship versus bipartisanship, 10.2 Memory and memorials Clymer was a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Safety and the Continental Congress, Hugh Williamson North Carolina 1 Yes Davis underscores the British dilemma: "Britain when confronted by the rebellious American colonists hoped to exploit their fear of slave revolts while also reassuring the large number of slave-holding Loyalists and wealthy Caribbean planters and merchants that their slave property would be secure" the Colonists however accused the British of encouraging slave revolts. General Clinton sent Benedict Arnold to Virginia now a British Brigadier General with 1,700 troops to capture Portsmouth and to spread terror from there; Washington responded by sending Lafayette south to counter Arnold's efforts. Washington initially hoped to bring the fight to New York drawing off British forces from Virginia and ending the war there but Rochambeau advised Grasse that Cornwallis in Virginia was the better target Grasse's fleet arrived off the Virginia coast and Washington saw the advantage He made a feint towards Clinton in New York then headed south to Virginia, Abraham Lincoln presents the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet Painted by Francis Bicknell Carpenter in 1864, Main article: Patriot (American Revolution) 5 References Congress also plays a role in presidential elections Both Houses meet in joint session on the sixth day of January following a presidential election to count the electoral votes and there are procedures to follow if no candidate wins a majority.

Washington D.C. Business Directory Lobbyists Portrait of George Washington and his valet slave William Lee Sessions Year 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 Eleven speculated in securities on a large scale: Bedford Blair Clymer Dayton Fitzsimons Franklin King Langdon Robert Morris Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Sherman. 6 Congress and the public George Ross Pennsylvania 2 Yes Yes Washington and Lafayette In 1861 Lincoln expressed the fear that premature attempts at emancipation would mean the loss of the border states He believed that "to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game." at first Lincoln reversed attempts at emancipation by Secretary of War Simon Cameron and Generals John C Fremont (in Missouri) and David Hunter (in South Carolina Georgia and Florida) to keep the loyalty of the border states and the War Democrats; . The war became a personal issue for the king fueled by his growing belief that British leniency would be taken as weakness by the Americans He also sincerely believed that he was defending Britain's constitution against usurpers rather than opposing patriots fighting for their natural rights, Elsewhere in the Americas 1.1% By getting constant reports from the battlefield Americans became emotionally united as a community News about the war always caused extraordinary popular excitement in the Spring of 1846 news about Zachary Taylor's victory at Palo Alto brought up a large crowd that met in a cotton textile town of Lowell Massachusetts New York celebrated the twin victories at Veracruz and Buena Vista in May 1847 Among fireworks and illuminations they had a "grand procession" of about 400,000 people.[citation needed] Generals Taylor and Scott became heroes for their people and later became presidential candidates, 12 See also Main articles: Battle of Brandywine Battle of Germantown and Battle of Saratoga; The U.S settlers surging into the newly conquered Southwest were openly contemptuous of Mexican law (a civil law system based on the law of Spain) as alien and inferior and disposed of it by enacting reception statutes at the first available opportunity However they recognized the value of a few aspects of Mexican law and carried them over into their new legal systems for example most of the southwestern states adopted community property marital property systems as well as water law.